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> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:16:36PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > the receiver part of the serial console seems to be somewhat problematic,
> > i have to type almost every character more than once to be acccepted, making
> > debugging with kgdb impossible. BTW, 5.4 works fine, so it's not a hardware
> > problem, nor parity/speed/start-stop bits.
> 
> And you are sure that no process is running on /dev/console with wchan
> 'ttyin' ?

it certainly looks so, but no cookies :-)

if init finishes, then breaking into the debugger, all seems ok, no characters
are lost (the console IS the serial), but if it panics, which is what im trying
to debug early in rc, most of the keystrokes are getting lost.

danny